ABC NEWS to Broadcast Full Biden Interview Friday Night - Critical for President

ABC NEWS to Broadcast Full Biden Interview Friday Night - Critical for President

ABC News has announced that it will air President Joe Biden's full interview on Friday evening.

This will be the first national interview with Biden in the past week since the disastrous debate performance.

“The decision to accelerate the release of George Stephanopoulos’s interview with Biden—set to be taped earlier Friday, but originally slated to be released Sunday—comes as the president is under pressure to show he is fit to stay in the race after a disastrous debate performance last week,” reports the Wall Street Journal.

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Stephanopoulos, previous to joining ABC News, served as press secretary to President Bill Clinton.

ABC News also said it would release a full transcript of the unedited interview. 

Last Friday, the New York Times called for Biden to abandon his reelection effort.

“President Biden has repeatedly and rightfully described the stakes in this November’s presidential election as nothing less than the future of American democracy,” the Times editorial said.

The Times added, “Mr. Biden has been an admirable president. Under his leadership, the nation has prospered and begun to address a range of long-term challenges, and the wounds ripped open by Mr. Trump have begun to heal. But the greatest public service Mr. Biden can now perform is to announce that he will not continue to run for re-election.”

"The clearest path for Democrats to defeat a candidate defined by his lies is to deal truthfully with the American public: acknowledge that Mr. Biden can’t continue his race, and create a process to select someone more capable to stand in his place to defeat Mr. Trump in November," added the Times.

Since then a number of other papers as well as some top donors, a members of congress has called for Biden to step aside.

“Before it announced its decision to air the full interview in prime time on Friday instead of Sunday morning, ABC News had planned to release some snippets of the interview during Friday’s ‘World News Tonight with David Muir’ and on ‘Good Morning America’ on Saturday and Sunday. The complete interview would have run later Sunday, on ‘This Week.’ The network now plans to have the full interview run again on that show,” according to the WSJ.